Smarter Targeting, Stronger Growth: How ICP + GTM Rigor Unlock Scale

“It’s not just about getting a deal closed. It’s about aligning on shared goals, making sure we’re solving the right problem, and ensuring we can actually scale together. That upfront rigor means faster onboarding, better results, and long-term partnerships that last.”  That’s a quote from Lee Aho and a sneak peek at today’s episode. Welcome to Revenue Boost: A Marketing Podcast—
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Today’s episode is for any agency or B2B services leader trying to scale new business smarter. I work with a lot of agencies who need to move from referrals or founder-led growth to a robust go-to-market engine. B2B SaaS and tech companies have mastered the GTM framework—but agencies are still lagging behind. Except for one.

In Smarter Targeting, Stronger Growth: How ICP and GTM Rigor Unlock Scale, Lee Aho, CRO of PerformCB, joins us to share how his team applied modern B2B go-to-market best practices to hyper-target the ideal customer profile and drive exponential results with a performance-first model.

Stay tuned until the end of today’s episode, where Lee shares how they use a can’t-miss offer strategy to win top-tier clients faster. Let’s go.

Kerry Curran, RBMA (00:01.655)
Welcome, Lee. Please introduce yourself and share your background and expertise.

Lee Aho (00:07.052)
Thanks, Kerry.

I’m Lee Aho, Chief Revenue Officer at PerformCB. I’m approaching my 17th year with the company, and while I wear many hats, I largely focus on new-business development and strategy execution for key accounts.

For listeners who may be less familiar with PerformCB, we specialize in new-user acquisition on an outcome-based model. What that looks like depends on the brand we’re partnering with. For example, brands such as Fetch Rewards, FanDuel, Cash App, and SoFi come to us to acquire new users for their mobile apps. In other cases, brands like LendingTree, Mutual of Omaha, and McAfee rely on us to drive consumers to their websites or landing pages to complete lead forms or make purchases.

We also do a great deal in the pay-per-call space: brands such as Allstate, Nationwide, and UnitedHealthcare use PerformCB to increase the volume of high-intent, qualified inbound calls. The common thread is that regardless of the outcome—installs, leads, purchases, or calls—we only get paid for the results we deliver.

Even when we’re paid on an install, for instance, we optimize against deeper-funnel metrics that truly matter to the marketer, such as account registrations or first-time deposits. We want to stay lockstep with each client’s most meaningful KPIs when we build and scale their acquisition strategies.

Kerry Curran, RBMA (02:02.455)
That’s an awesome model and incredibly valuable to your clients. I’m excited to talk about how PerformCB has built its own customer base. Let’s discuss the changes you’ve made in the last year—what you shifted toward and how it’s working.

Lee Aho (02:34.626)
Absolutely. We’ve really elevated new-business development across the organization, and it wasn’t a single change but a series of steps that have compounded over time. A few highlights:

1. Refined I